Do you see Nóra as an Irish name?

[lovebeingmuma]

I want an Irish name and like Nóra, Irish people help please 😊

Is it actually a different name to Nora (no accent thingy)?
I don't think of it as a particularly Irish name - but I actually don't know the origins.
It's just a fairly regular name to me (but nice - I like it).

How would you pronounce that?

I’m not Irish.
i like Nora and I really like Orla.

I googled.....Nora has apparently Anglo-Norman origins but also Hebrew origins.
Helpful there Wikipedia 😂
It said Nora with the accent (sorry I don't know how to get one one my phone) is "probably an Irish version".

Oh, it sounds nice with the accent:

The name "Nora" with an acute accent over the "o" (Ó or ó) is pronounced like "Noh-rah" in Irish, but with a slightly more emphasized "o" sound, almost like "oo-rah" with a rolled "r". In English, it's typically pronounced as "NOH-ruh

I see it as quite old English actually .and quite old fashioned

It’s Welsh in my head - but without the accent

I would have considered it an Irish name.
I wouldn’t bother with the fada.
The fada elongates the letter O and that isn’t needed with the name Nora.
I know quite a few Noras and none used a fada.

No, but I wouldn’t think of it as English with the accent. I would be concerned I would pronounce it wrong too

@Thanksman I just said those two different ways to pronounce it out loud and I can't hear a difference at all 😂
To be honest I'd pronounce it as "Noor-rah".
Never heard "Noh" as a way to start the name.
All the Nora's I have known have pronounced their name "Noor-rah".

Nóirín ( little Nora ) has 2 fadas 😀

With the fada, yes I'd think of it as an Irish name.

However, in the UK the fada won't get used, but as it doesn't affect the pronunciation, maybe it won't matter.

British people won't see Nóra/Nora as an Irish name, though. It will be seen as a vintage English name.

It's nice with Aoife (I was on your other thread).

Nor - ah

I didn't think of Nora as an Irish name until the news story about the teenager with learning disabilities who went missing and died on a family holiday to Malaysia 😞
So sad 😢
Sadly that's what comes to mind about the name now for me

Noreen

I did the same, lol. I actually like the pronunciation Noh-rah (with a bit of a roll on the rs!).

I’m Irish and have never seen Nora used with a fada in Ireland myself. I thought it was short for Honora. (An older friend called Nora had Honora on her birth cert, so it was a short version of that at least sometimes.)

Lovely name!

Not as an Irish origin name, but as a name that has always been well used in Ireland in my lifetime. I know of Noras in their 90s and a couple under 10 in Ireland.

I like it (prefer without the fada) - I didn’t realise it had Irish origins.

I'm Irish. It's not really thought of as an Irish name, no. The English name Honora became spelt Onóra in Ireland when it arrived, & if then shortened it became Nora (with or without a fada). If you're really stuck on an Irish name, I'd choose something else.

I think it might be the other way round and it was an anglicanistion of an Irish name. I do know in West Cork variations on Honora was extremely common in the 1800s. Most of the common names in official records are anglicisations at that time. Many of the anglicisations were really random.

I love the name Nuala. Not sure if it has a fada.

No, I don’t think it was from Irish originally. It came to Ireland with the Normans and was adopted like many other names. Some information here which is interesting I think.
enchantednames.wordpress.com/2021/05/18/honora/

I see Norah as Irish because it was my grandma's name and she was from Dublin 🙂 I loved her unconditionally and still miss her decades after she died